Produced by Turgut Dincer, Chris Pinfield and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Transcriber's Note. Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. Variations in transliteration have been retained. Italics are indicated by _underscores_. Small capitals have been replaced by full capitals. Paragraphs in smaller font have been indented. In the note that precedes the table of contents the two characters 'Gh' are underlined. The underlining may not display properly in all applications. References to three Notes at the end of the text have been included in the Table of Contents. The Festival of Spring PUBLISHED BY JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW, Publishers to the University. MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., LONDON. _New York_, _The Macmillan Co._ _London_, _Simpkin, Hamilton and Co._ _Cambridge_, _Macmillan and Bowes_. _Edinburgh_, _Douglas and Foulis_. MCMIII. The Festival of Spring from The Díván of Jeláleddín Rendered in English Gazels after Rückert's Versions _With an Introduction And a Criticism of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám_ By William Hastie, D.D. Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow Glasgow James MacLehose and Sons Publishers to the University 1903 'In Depth of Conception, as well as in Loftiness of Flight and Sublimity of Language, JELÁLEDDÍN surpasses all the Poets of the East.' PROFESSOR HERMANN ETHÉ. 'The greatest Mystical Poet of any Age.' REYNOLD A. NICHOLSON. 'And all the Breeze of Fancy blows, And every Dew-drop paints a bow, The wizard Lightnings deeply glow, And every Thought breaks out a Rose.' TENNYSON. This Book with its Sincere Utterances of Love and Friendship towards the Highest is dedicated to William A. Sanderson, Esq. Byethorne, Galashiels My ever faithful Friend in Adversity, as in Prosperity Old Songs are sweetest Old Friends are best Note The current, popular spelling of Persian Names and Words has been generally adopted in the following pages, in order to avoid any appearance of pedantry. The _Turkish_ forms have occasionally been preferred when in place, _e.g._ _Devlet_ for _Daulat_, and _Mevlānā_ for _Maulānā_. The exact transliteration of the Persian—such as Jalálu-'d-Din, Shams-ud-Din, Umar, G̲h̲asal, Díwán—will be found in the foot-note references to more learned Works. Contents Introduction Jeláleddín as a Persian Poet—Judgments of Scholars and Experts in Persian Literature since Sir W. Jones—The Philosophical and Theological Interest—Hegel—Tholuck—The Poetical Form—The Gazel—The Divan—Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyám—Burns—Browning—Keats's Nightingale—Coleridge echoes the Faith of Jeláleddín. Fifty Gazels of Jeláleddín PAGE I. Light, 1